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Entry 719
Nothing out of ordinary... Same old place same old routine. Waking up with the same angry possume again, how does it even find me every time, finding somethink edible to eat, getting chased by meeple's robot army... And now finishing it off with some journeling. At this point it's the only think keeping me sane..."
Fan cacled. As it wasn't sad enough as it is, this was his life now, even thou this wasn't always the life he lived, it all did started with somethink big...
Everything changed when the meeple's robots attacked, way back when they all had only one goal in mind; finding and terminating Mephone4 and Mephone4S... After the season finale of the show where Mephone4 hosted both Mephone4 and Mephone4S were destroyed by the deadly robots along with two other contestants. Fan being the, well 'biggest fan' of the show knew deacent amount of information of what happend. He was actually there and watched with his own eyes as it was happening.
It was hard for Fan, witnessing the death of your favorite...thing? Hyperfixation? You get the point. He needed to do a lot of thearpy throu well journalling, it soothed his loneliness a little bit. It has been a long time since he encountered any other objects, he didn't really mind it at first but as the time past he was feeling his thought getting louder and that wasn't really the best for him. He knew there were objects left... At least he heard their screams once in a while... He imagened the ones who survived just tried to rebuild the homes they lost or just lived in the rubbels of the destroyed homes, not everyone had to be like him and just live in the forest. He actually never had a place that he could call 'home' wheter if it was an actual home or a destroyed one but living like this was okay, not the best but not the worst -most of the time when he doesn't see that possume- he thinks.
Even if his energy for the day was gone the thought of still needing to find somethink to light his fire for tonight made his face drop. He unwillingly got up from the tree trunk he was sitting, shoved his journel to his bag, grabed it and with his legs leading him he looked around. Luckly not so far to him, he was able to find some branches. As he was reaching for them he swore on his life there was somethink or rather someone was near, he -at this point- knew that he was good at his senses and he trusted them. With the area he was in was reather abonded it took him by suprise.
He usally didn't carry any weapons, not the brightest decision he ever had at an robot apocalyples but other than that he always had his trusty army knife; so he tried to took the knife carefully out of his bag with the least of sound he could make. He held the knife in one hand, grabing it with as much force as he can. Finally after standing and looking at the dried branches on the ground for a solid minute he had a little act of bravery to warn whoever there was from Fan's totally threatening nature, he thought it was only fair.
"Look i know there is someone here, so i-i think just show yourself before you get hurt bud!" Fan said while trying to sound ferm and definitly not scared but his voice crack mid sentence definitly gave him away.
That said, the bush near to Fan's left started to make noises, noises indecaided that someone was basicly having trouble with getting out of the bush.
"Hey! hey can you umm...help? I came with peace, i swear!" The object yelled with a high piched voice to make their voice heard or was it their actuall voice?
Fan sighing with relief. He desiaded to help cus' it was that easy to convinse him that it wasn't someone dangerous 'Man, i need to learn how to not trust objects so easily' he thought.
As he got closer to the bush tipy toeing, the noises became more clear as it sounded like someone was cursing to the bush. Fan reached with shaking hands to pull the leafs to look at the object. The object was a test tube with what seem to have some sort of acid inside it with lots of scratchs on the glass. They had glasses which was not that practiacal but Fan guessed they didn't really had a choise. It was eather being blind or being litearlly blind. They had a belt with verias weapons, which should have been a red flag for Fan but he really didn't cared for any of that... Because there was just something with that object that made Fan couldn't look away from them, like some sort of curse... It feels really hot in here for some reason. Was the forest on fire or something??!
"Uhm... Are you planing on helping?-"
"...W-wha!- oh yeah sorry."
With that fan hold on to the stranger to get them out of the bush but he just felt even hotter now wasn't the best time fan focus.
"Thanks, i will just cut to the chase... I need your help Fan."
As they standed, the sun started to set with oranges and purples danceing in the air. Fan looking confused, how could this weirdly charming object knew his name and what could they possibly want..?
"Okay, thats- hold on... How do you know my name?- " Fan thinked, then looked at the 'Test tube' who had a 'are you that stupid?' look.
"Yeah... Don't answer that. So how can i help?"
"How much information do you have on Mephone4 ?" Test tube said with a death stair.
"Wha-"
"Look, there is no time for explenasions just tell me everything about him that you know..." Test tube said and paused but it looked like she wanted to say more.
'This wasn't suspicios at all...' Fan tought. "Well since you asked nicely, i can tell you that Mr. Cobs, head of the meeple company, you probably know him i mean who doesn't? Anyways he wanted him gone because he was not up to the times standarts. Apperently thats just what they do on Meeple, they destroy the old models as soon as some new model comes. And of course he is the host-" As fan was yapping his heart out the test tube was running out of patiens.
"Sorry but it's urgent just tell me what exaclly did he looked like?"
"Whats that goi-"
"Just answer it!" Test tube raised her voice makeing Fan jumped a little.
"Jeez, do you always cut objects off like that?" Fan said, throwing his arms for dramatic affect and raising his voice even thou he didn't mean to.
Test tube sighed, whispering a 'sorry' to Fan. Now with a gentler voice Test tube asked him to come with them. Fan at this point was kind of hessitant but when Test tube reached their hand for Fan to take it, he just took it, following the object in the dark. This was not like fan at all. Being drivin with this force made him question many parts of his life, he was alwaya been the weird kid no öne wanted to hang out with. He now following someone who needed him left his body with this weird butnice feeling. As he reflected his whole life in his head the sky was now becoming pitch black with pretty little droplets of stars but Fan wasn't really paying attetion to his view he was basicly hopeing that the object he was following wouldn't murder them in the middle of nowhere just because he just desided to help a stranger who has been pretty rude to him until now, not going to lie.
After walking for a time the test tube stoped, the wind brushing Fan's face indicated that they were at somewhere high, even thou fan couldn't tell the differens of his eyes being shut or open the thought of looking down was enough for him to get nauseouse and make his head spinny. Still holding hands, Test tube turned to Fan:
"Do you trust me?"
"Of course not, we just met." at least he wasn't that stupied.
"Eh... Fear enough."
"Wait why arEE- AAAAAAAA"
With that they jumped, the adrenalin filling his body. This was it Fan thought while shutting his eyes, it was over for him. He was going to die just because he desided to help and follow an object he didn't know and he just couldn't believe what kind of idiot would do that-
wait did he just heard a splash... Was he in the water?
Fan opened his eyes, seeing they landed in some kind of pool full of water but there was this smell... Oh shit. "Holy shit..." Fan said while hufing and pufing, trying to breath normally again.
"Elephant shit to be exact."
"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!!"
Fan yelled finally cathing his breath and hopping out of the pool.
"We could have died or worst could have landed in a piel of shit!" Fan started to walk up and down, Test tube getting out of there as well, trying to stop Fan.
"Yeah but-"
"Why were we at the crapy cliff anyway?"
"... The what?"
"You don't- ugh" Fan pinched the bridge of his so called nose looking frustrated as the seconds passed
"This is where Mephone4 was killed, at his reality shows finale." Fan had reached his limits at this point, almost being faced with death and then accepted to be calm was not somethink he could handle apperently because the other object just looked at him puzzeled, trying to understand.
"Oh... Well then, you'll want to see this." Test tube just shruged and started walking ahead.
What the fuck...
Fan thought it wasn't just him probably, he knew any object that was sane enough would react like he would.
After all of this you would think Fan wouldn't want to follow the test tube, the angry side of him still wanted to yell and scream to the object who almost killed both of them but... Okay but he was kinda curios about what the object was going show him.
This time Test tube walking ahead and leading the way while Fan just quitely followed them. With darkness and stars surrending them they walked and walked and walked...
It was very suprising how they didn't triped on anythink and could just walk without a light leading their way. After what felt like an eternity for Fan the sound of footsteps in front of him stoped. He was basicly blind from the darkness, the eareness made his mind go blank until a flash of light was smited tovered him, makeing the fog in his thoughts go away.
"I found him like this today, i mean HOW could he even be here, definitlly have no idea on that haha... So yeah what do you think?"
Fan just froze in his place, unable to think or pay attantion to the object right beside him.
"Mephone..?"